The problem with Coolidge was the man himself, cantankerous, a brooder. He saw the signs of the collapse of the markets and did nothing for fear of government intervention.

I had trouble getting through this book because I just wasn't quite into an autobiography of a man that I didn't really like. A summer read this isn't.

Chock full of details, and intriguing to read - don't be put off by the fact that the chapters are so long. Gave me lots more details about him than I knew, but touched on all of the ones I did - "You lose", the Native American headdress, and Grace Coolidge's official portrait. A nice addition to my presidential series.

This book disappointed me. It was a strong and worthy bio of Coolidge, and will probably become the standard just for being so long and detailed, but it didn't tell me much that I didn't already know or anything I wanted to know about Coolidge and his career.

One of the few very interesting facts I learned is that the phrase "silent majority" was NOT coined by Pat Buchanan in the 1960s to describe the voter demographic President Nixon should reach and speak for. It was actually first used in the 1920s by Bruce Barton to describe the segment of the American public Calvin Coolidge was most loved by.

Excellent biography on President Coolidge. Another President about whom I knew only the basic facts regarding his life and presidency. I enjoyed the way Amity Shlaes writes. Great facts but not too many tangents. I highly recommend this biography.

This book is about Calvin Coolidge, a Vermonter who rose to become America's 30th President in the mid 1920s (he was initially Harding's Vice President, until Harding's death).

This wasn't a bad book. It read pretty well, and moved at a good lick. My problem is that I think it doesn't necessarily bear comparison to other American political biographies I've read lately.

Don't get me wrong, it's a decent enough read in its own right (even if it portrays Coolidge as someone who never saw a buck he didn't know how to stretch), it's just compared to Caro's book about Johnson in the Senate, this book just doesn't feel as well researhed or well written.

If you've not read Caro's book, you'll probably enjoy this one better.

Pretty good for a biography. Silet Cal definitely would have been an extreme couponer